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I know this is a very old thread, but I'm new to this and need to upgrade from 4.2.2 to 4.2.5 as the host has upgraded PHP to 5.6.30 and its broken a few things like images inserting in posts but then repeated at the bottom of teh post as "attached images" having scrolled through the forum, seems its PHP version upgrade thats done it.

OK, so I'd love to upgrade to the latest version 5, which I can, licensed to do so, but this will be a first upgrade for me after looking after the forum for a while. Is there a good step by step guide still available somewhere as the links in this and other threads of help seem to be either dead links or out of date (like my forum clearly) information.

I'm also considering moving to cloud version - the thing thats stopping me is that I don't want to lose the forum posts, but want a clean install.

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A 'clean install' means a blank database with no posts, as if you have never had a forum before, so you can't have a clean install and keep your posts and members.

You should consider what you want to achieve with an upgrade. An upgrade to vB5 won't magically fix broken things, but vB5 is a very different product to vB4 and your forum will change considerably. If your only issue is that some of the vB4 functionality broke due to a php upgrade, then at this stage you should consider upgrading to 4.2.5. This will work with php 5.6, php 7.0 or php 7.1 (but NOT php 7.2).

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Thanks Mark. I have in mind that being stuck on vB4 means the forum is going no-where dreading water with no vision and slowly losing functionality. If vB5 changes things cosiderably, maybe that could be what we need. I've looked at the Demo in your signature and looks good. I think I could strip out articles from the CMS (wordpress) and put them into a vB5 site. I notice there is some sort of upgrade tool that might help with vB4 to vB5?

Would still ask if there is a decent upgrade guide for vB4 - as always the first time doing something is difficult, once I've done something once I'm usually OK with it.

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I've just done a test post on your demo site. I have to say, I do like the way it works. My forum is heavily dependant on images being uploaded as per my test. I found the image upload and insert very familiar, very much like the way its done in Wordpress with many more options available to the user. Layout is very much the same and embedding video clips (seen on another test post) looks very much the same. I'm liking what I see.

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